Sick Transit: Biography of a Video and the Class That Made It

In: PS: political science & politics, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 437-440

Abstract

Describes the production of Sick Transit, a video documentary on metropolitan transportation policy & spatial mismatch in Baltimore, MD. The assignment compelled the students to pursue clarity in thought & expression required to build & convey a compelling & accessible message regarding the particularity of the city, its placehood, a dimension of urban politics often lost in the generalizations of traditional social scientific inquiry. 1 Photograph, 3 References. J. Zendejas